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Reniassance Inventions
By: Lexi Onifer
In the Renaissance time period there were many new inventions. For example there was the horse collar and harness, Galileo’s telescope, the mechanical compass, and the printing press.
The first invention I am going to talk about is the horse collar and harness. Before it would take 8 oxen to pull the plow. Peasants would combine oxen to make teams because they couldn’t afford to own 8 oxen. The design of the more advanced collar began in China. Yet later other types were invented in Europe. Though each all had the same basic parts, like the coulter that cut through the soil, the plowshare that also cut through the soil, the difference between the two is that the coulter cut vertically and the plowshare cut horizontally, the last part was the mouldboard which turned the soil to one side.
With the new invention peasants needed a new way to pull. They used draft horses in place oxen because first they wouldn’t have to borrow oxen from each other and second the horses were more efficiently. The horse collar and harness allowed horses to pull up to 5000 lbs. Also it increased the farming process by 30% and horses could pull for 2 hours longer a day. With more food they were able to make a larger population. Horse collars also were useful for transportation and trade because horses could pull larger loads.
The next invention was the telescope, it was not invented by Galileo how ever. He heard of the idea but was the first to actually make a functioning one however. He made the first telescope in 1608. In 1609 he was the first to study and observe space, stars, and planets with his telescope.
Galileo's discovery of the 'handles' of Saturn was encoded in 'Smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttaviras', which could be unscrambled as 'Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi. Which means "I have observed the highest planet tri-form." He also discovered that Jupiter has 4 moons, which are the Galilean moons, and there are stars apart of the Milky Way. In 1616 he tried to make it easier to determine longitude at sea by using the satellites of Jupiter.
The mechanical compass was originally invented in 200 C.E. by the Chinese and was used for fortune telling. The Europeans were the first to use it for navigation in 1182 however. The Europeans just made a few modifications. “Compasses were originally developed when lodestones, a mineral that has naturally magnetized iron ore, were suspended above a board with the ability to pivot and turn.” They found that the lodestones would always stay pointed to north and south. Christopher Columbus replaced two of the letters with the letter T for tramontana which is the name of the north wind, and a cross replacing L for levanter for the east, which is the direction of the Holy Land.
By: Lexi Onifer
In the Renaissance time period there were many new inventions. For example there was the horse collar and harness, Galileo’s telescope, the mechanical compass, and the printing press.
The first invention I am going to talk about is the horse collar and harness. Before it would take 8 oxen to pull the plow. Peasants would combine oxen to make teams because they couldn’t afford to own 8 oxen. The design of the more advanced collar began in China. Yet later other types were invented in Europe. Though each all had the same basic parts, like the coulter that cut through the soil, the plowshare that also cut through the soil, the difference between the two is that the coulter cut vertically and the plowshare cut horizontally, the last part was the mouldboard which turned the soil to one side.
With the new invention peasants needed a new way to pull. They used draft horses in place oxen because first they wouldn’t have to borrow oxen from each other and second the horses were more efficiently. The horse collar and harness allowed horses to pull up to 5000 lbs. Also it increased the farming process by 30% and horses could pull for 2 hours longer a day. With more food they were able to make a larger population. Horse collars also were useful for transportation and trade because horses could pull larger loads.
The next invention was the telescope, it was not invented by Galileo how ever. He heard of the idea but was the first to actually make a functioning one however. He made the first telescope in 1608. In 1609 he was the first to study and observe space, stars, and planets with his telescope.
Galileo's discovery of the 'handles' of Saturn was encoded in 'Smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttaviras', which could be unscrambled as 'Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi. Which means "I have observed the highest planet tri-form." He also discovered that Jupiter has 4 moons, which are the Galilean moons, and there are stars apart of the Milky Way. In 1616 he tried to make it easier to determine longitude at sea by using the satellites of Jupiter.
The mechanical compass was originally invented in 200 C.E. by the Chinese and was used for fortune telling. The Europeans were the first to use it for navigation in 1182 however. The Europeans just made a few modifications. “Compasses were originally developed when lodestones, a mineral that has naturally magnetized iron ore, were suspended above a board with the ability to pivot and turn.” They found that the lodestones would always stay pointed to north and south. Christopher Columbus replaced two of the letters with the letter T for tramontana which is the name of the north wind, and a cross replacing L for levanter for the east, which is the direction of the Holy Land.